Thursday, September 29, 2016

6 Conservative Positions Trump Abandoned In The Debate

So, remember when conservative beacons assured us that Donald Trump was a real conservative?

That turned out to be a lie.

Last night, at the first presidential debate, Donald Trump mirrored the leftist agenda on issues including free trade and gun rights; he pumped isolationism, and agreed with Hillary Clinton on government funding for child care. Here were Trump’s greatest anti-conservative apostasies:

Free Trade Sucks. Trump led off the debate with one of his old Buchanan-esque standbys: free trade stinks. Jobs are fleeing for Mexico, that absolute economic powerhouse that is for some reason the source of massive illegal immigration thanks to Mexicans fleeing their country for the greener pastures of the United States. China is destroying us, even though China has had multiple stock market meltdowns in the last two years. Trump called Mexico the “eighth wonder of the world” in terms of industrial capacity. He said NAFTA was the worst trade deal in history (false). He said other countries are “stealing” our jobs, as though we have a central job bank and those nefarious bandoleers are holding it up at gunpoint. This is economic illiteracy of the highest order.

Government-Paid Child Care. Trump wants to initiate a massive new government program, just like Hillary: “As far as child care is concerned and so many other things, I think Hillary and I agree on that. We probably disagree a little bit as to numbers and amounts and what we’re going to do, but perhaps we’ll be talking about that later.” Here was Hillary’s proposal, with which Trump agreed: “Let’s have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let’s be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.” Oh.

No Due Process Before Gun Rights Removal. A few months ago, Trump got into hot water with the NRA after saying he supported a proposal to remove Second Amendment rights from anyone placed on the no-fly list, no due process of law necessary. He then backed down. He went back to his original position last night: “I agree [with Clinton], and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no-fly lists. I agree with you.” In other words, if you are on a no-fly list, and you don’t even know about it, you have no right to own a gun.

Read the other 3 Conservative Positions Trump Abandoned In The Debate HERE.

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